Wei Ping-ao
Also Known As: 魏平澳, Ping Ou Wei, Paul Wei Ping-ao, Ping-ao Wei, Paul Wei
Biography: Wei Ping-ao (Chinese: 魏平澳, 29 November 1929 – 3 December 1989), also known as Paul Wei, was a Hong Kong-based Chinese actor who started his career in the Shaw Brothers Studio. He is best known for playing cunning interpreters in Bruce Lee's 1972 films Fist of Fury and Way of the Dragon, in which he dubbed his own voice, and also appeared in films such as Deaf Mute Heroine (1971), Hapkido (1972) and Fists of Bruce Lee (1978). He suffered from jaundice in his later years. He died on 3 December 1989 in Hong Kong.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Adult: No
Birthday: November 29, 1929
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 03, 1989
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Turbo Dragon
Overview: A gifted young fighter undergoes some advanced bionic training making him an invincible martial artist; his skills are put to the ultimate test when he must face the Terror of Siam a ruthless Thai fighter.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-09-28
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Naughty! Naughty!
Overview: Wu Te-chuan is a young man trying to make a living in an easy way. But now he is penniless and will being thrown out of his Macau hotel. Kind- hearted hotel maid Hsiao Yen is the only one to help him in the world. One day, Wu plays a trick on the hotel owner. The scheme backfires and Wu has to flee to Hong Kong. Wu saves desperate painter Hsin. He convinces Hsin that his painting will sell if he is dead. After Hsin pretend to be dead, his paintings really can be sold well, but backfires finally. Then, Wu and Hsin team up and engage themselves full time in con games, gambling and sex inclusive. Finally, Wu is being chased by the ring enforcers but is saved. Finding himself in love with Hsiao Yen, Wu decides to turn a new leaf and live properly ever after.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-07-18
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The Way of the Dragon
Overview: Tang Lung arrives in Rome to help his cousins in the restaurant business. They are being pressured to sell their property to the syndicate, who will stop at nothing to get what they want. When Tang arrives he poses a new threat to the syndicate, and they are unable to defeat him. The syndicate boss hires the best Japanese and European martial artists to fight Tang, but he easily finishes them off.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Good Neighbors
Overview: Dr. Huang runs a clinic. One day, Mr. Chen moves to next door and opens a Chinese medicine clinic. In the beginning, the two families get along fine and Chen’s son and Huang’s daughter like each other. But when Mrs. Chen proposes the marriage to Dr. Huang, the conflicts between the families explode.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Bruce Lee: The Man and the Legend
Overview: This documentary tells the story of Bruce Lee and his unsuccessful efforts to start a acting career in the U.S., he returned to Hong Kong where he became an international star, and his death at age 32.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-10-14
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The Winged Tiger
Overview: Famed screenwriter Shen Chiang got one of his very first chances to direct his own script with this exciting action adventure. His story is suitably thrilling: if villains "Winged Tiger" Teng Fei and "Underworld King" Yin Te-lung combine their kung-fu knowledge, the "Martial Arts World" will be plunged into chaos. That evil union is set to occur at the marriage of Yin's sister to Teng. Can this dangerous duo be stopped before one says "I do"?
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-02-18
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Journey to Kwan Shan
Overview: Journey to Kwan Shan. A Taiwan-HK film by CMPC.
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Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Conscience and Guilt
Overview: Conscience and Guilt
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1960-08-26
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The Snake Girl Drops In
Overview: A young snake girl is kidnapped by raiders in the jungle. The local Gang Boss wants to torture her but his jailer will help her to escape.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Remote Love
Overview: Yimin, the son of a carriage driver of Xinjiang ethnicity, is in love with Malihan. Malihan's father despises Yimin for his lowly background and forces his daughter to marry Bulate. Min then leaves town for development for 5 years and comes back as an army officer. However, Han has been forced to engage with Te. With Han defying the arrangement, Te challenges Min to a duel. Min catches the bullet meant for Te and wins him and Han's father to his side. But when war beckons, he sacrifices love to join the army. After the war, Min goes back to his hometown but everything has changed. Han and her whole family have gone without a trace. Min can only recall the past alone.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Downhill They Ride
Overview: Northeastern China is infested with bandits. Hsiao Kai (Paul Chang Chung), a wandering knight, captures a white horse from thieves. His skilful handling of the horse earns his admiration of fellow traveler Chu Ching Hsu (Wong Chung Shun). They arrive at Lo Lung Kow, where the villagers hunt for a living and are constantly terrorized by bandits. Grocer Ting Tze Pao (Ngai Ping Ngo) returns from his negotiations with the bandits with bad news. They intend to collect furs from the villagers at a fixed price. Village leader Mu (Yuen Sam and his daughter Tsui Ying (Pat ting Hung) run a tavern. She wonders how the white horse belonging to a Sinkiang youth named Sha Yi Ti (Man Ling) is now in the possession of Hsiao Kai.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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Dragon Gate
Overview: King and prison escapee join forces. Hsu Feng & Carter Wong Play Yuan Loyalists who thwart an attack from the Mongol General and Mantis Master Chang Yi.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Spring in Pattaya
Overview: Handsome and young, Shih Hsing flew to Bangkok with his close friend Ping Ho with the hope to find his father who was a rich merchant. However, he found that his father died for a long time owing to business failure. Shih wandered in the street and met Liu Kun, who was as poor. The three poor fellows had great hopes that one day fortune would knock on their door. Rich merchant Chen Chi-ching came Bangkok for sight-seeing. Local businessman Hu Te-piao tried hard to get him invest on entertainment business. Chen hated being disturbed, he found Shih look like himself and asked Shih to impersonate him to meet Hu. Shih was pleased to do so as the pay was high. The three had a good time, they find girls and enjoying it very much.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-09-29
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The Marvelous Kung Fu
Overview: A troupe of comedians, including midgets, provide entertainment and kung fu trouble for the villains.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Wrath of the Sword
Overview: The last of the Bai Family seeks revenge of the death of her whole family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-05-28
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Divorce, Hong Kong Style
Overview: A philandering business tycoon accuses his angelic wife of cheating. He learns the hard way he had it good and hopes to win his wife back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-12-28
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36 Super Kids
Overview: Young students of martial arts must prove themselves worthy to their overbearing Master.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-06-16
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The Legend of Bruce Lee
Overview: The young Bruce Lee (Ho Tsung-Tao AKA Bruce Li) has studied the philosophy and art of kung fu since boyhood, but his girlfriend says that he lives in a world of his own and all he thinks of is fighting. She begs him to change his ways, yet after a humiliating defeat Bruce vows that it will never happen again, and while witnessing street thugs preying on innocent people, he is driven to defend them. Things appear to be no better when Bruce comes to the United States to begin teaching, and is under constant attack by rival martial artists, but all the while his unorthodox style is beginning to catch on. Finally he becomes an international sensation as a movie star with a wife, kids, money, and everything he's always wanted - who then must fight for both his life and his reputation back home in Hong Kong.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Brave Young Generation
Overview: A Shaw Brothers production that was filmed in Taiwan
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1971-05-27
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Deaf and Mute Heroine
Overview: Chang Cheh-influenced swordplay film puts a female spin on the genre with its titular heroine. Helen Ma stars as the “can’t hear, can’t talk” swordswoman who makes off with some pearls and bloodily dispatches the many comers who futilely attempt to retrieve them from her. According to Jeff Goodhartz, THE DEAF AND MUTE HEROINE “trumps anything that King Hu or Chang Cheh were unleashing at the time.”
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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Sex of the Imperial
Overview: Life of Eunuchs and courtesans in the royal hinterland from an expert's point of view. Analyse of the life behind the scenes of the palace and detailed explanation of the life of the Chinese court!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Hong Kong Rhapsody
Overview: There's nothing like a good, opulent, gaudy musical to lift the spirits, but when it's a 1960's Hong Kong musical orchestrated by a Japanese director and composer, it breaks through the ranks as a classic of campy kitsch. A follow-up to the previous year's megahit Hong Kong Nocturne, with the same Japanese creative team, Hong Kong Rhapsody follows the fortunes of an unemployed magician whose love life is so knotty it would take Houdini to unravel!
Genres: Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1968-01-29
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King Drummer
Overview: Ling Yun plays the replacement hired for a popular band whose egotistic drummer quit to join a rival group. When the new arrival becomes a hit, he earns the jealous wrath of the predecessor. Meanwhile, the young drummer's mother is fervently against his music career. With the gorgeous Lily Ho as the manageress of the band and some terrific drumming set pieces, the whole thing, needless to say, comes off with a bang.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Kiss and Kill
Overview: A military plane carrying a nuclear load explodes mid-air after being hit by mysterious electronic rays. Sculptor Liang Tien Hong (Paul Chang Chung) discovers the ray was invented by his uncle and he must find it before Communist agents steal it for their own nefarious purposes.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-08-19
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Poisonous Rose
Overview: A drug smuggling ring is suspected of operating out of a posh Hong Kong nightclub called The Black Widow, where the sultry songbird Chiang Feng is the star attraction.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1966-10-24
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Valley of the Fangs
Overview: Intrigue in the court means that the wife and daughter of framed scholar Sung have to travel to the capital in disguise, as court agents hunt them down. A righteous swordsman and a group of kiln workers get caught up in the action.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-06-10
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Double Bliss
Overview: A melodrama about the blossoming love between two music students returning home from abroad and planning to wed. However, both of their parents don't know about it and when they find out, all bliss blasts away as social gaps become an issue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1970-02-04
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The Millionaire Chase
Overview: Shaw Brothers musical about three Showgirls chasing millionaires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-05-20
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Tales of Larceny
Overview: In “The Scholar and The Soldier”, Major Fang is obsessed with Yu Zhen by chance, knowing that she is the daughter of scholar Xu, he decided to enter their house in disguise with his page, and however, Yu Zhen's cousin comes back for the pre-arranged marriage at the same time. Li Han-hsiang both scripted and helmed “Tales of Larceny” about the scams cons worked and the games people played during the corrupt Chinese Warlord era, featuring a cast filled with the best of Shaw's exceptional character actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Can't Stop the War
Overview: In 1945, Japan had surrendered but the news did not reach a small village in China. The local guerrilla force still put up a hilarious fight with the Japanese command.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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The 5 Kung Fu Kids
Overview: A group of kids (Little Rambo, Little Chuck Norris, Little Jackie Chan, and Little Bruce Lee) trained in martial arts combats gangsters after they kidnap the sister of a girl they have a crush on.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1988-01-04
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River of Tears
Overview: Mysterious songstress Fang Biyu is loved by two brothers, Qiwei and Qijun. After freeing herself from the clutches of gangsters, she gives her heart to Qiwei. Tragedy comes knocking on the door when one of the gangsters comes out of prison, and Qiwei dies in a car accident. Blamed for her husband's death, Biyu is forced to go back to singing to make a living, but hopes to reunite with her son and return to the family one day.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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The Three Smiles
Overview: The film tells the story of Tang Bohu, a famous scholar who spends most of his time wandering around the countryside.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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Song of Tomorrow
Overview: Ivy Ling Po was at the height of her fame in traditional Huangmei Opera films -- and chiefly as a male impersonator -- when she radically changed her image, taking on an ultra-contemporary semi-musical role in Song Of Tomorrow. Ivy plays a dance hostess and leading man Chiao Chuang is a jazz drummer, but with a difference. Chiao is a heroin addict, and Ivy learns that heroin is a far more lethal adversary than "the other woman" when trying to keep their marriage intact.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-10-12
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The Ghost
Overview: Taiwanese horror film.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-05-14
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Love Is an Elusive Wind
Overview: Taiwanese romance film.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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One Arm Chivalry Fights Against One Arm Chivalry
Overview: The story centers on a secret society that plots to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and resume the Ming monarchy. The organization gains the support of numerous righteous martial clans, but the Qing government has its own plans of squashing the rebellion. The scheming prince of Qing poisons the rebels' central figure, Chi Zi Qiang (Jimmy Wang), and uses the antidote to force him to surrender. Being the hero that he is, Chi would rather cut off one of his own arms to save his life than submit to the prince. He then, single-armedly, defeats all the Manchurian minions...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Three Funny Detectives
Overview: Taiwanese comedy film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Calamity of Snakes
Overview: During the construction of luxury apartment buildings a huge nest of thousands of snakes is discovered. Francis Chang (the boss) refuses to delay the construction and orders to kill all the animals. He is repeated warned by his wife, who had some nightmares concerning him and the snakes. They do not manage to kill all snakes and so they take revenge on the construction workers and Francis Chang. Soon thousands of killer snakes under the lead of a giant Boa invades the building an kill all the new inhabitants. Even a snake master can't stop them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-06-26
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Spooky Kookies
Overview: Early ghost comedy from Cinema City.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Golden Nun
Overview: This one has ghosts, hoppers and magic shennannigans!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Adventure in Denmark
Overview: Two Chinese men go to Copenhagen for some reason. While one of them philanders around with various Danish and Asian women, the other falls in love with his Chinese tour guide, but takes time to have various drawn-out kung fu battles with a seemingly endless amount of thugs sent by his partner's overweight and very jealous girlfriend back home.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-06-28
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Filthy Guy
Overview: Sammo Hung is a poor village orphan called 'Filthy Guy' for his unwashed / diseased head whose ambitious landlord's son becomes king and wants to kill him as a prophecy predicts Sammo Hung will replace him
Genres: Action
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Fist of Fury
Overview: Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While investigating the man's death, Chen discovers that a rival Japanese school is operating a drug smuggling ring. To avenge his master’s death, Chen takes on both Chinese and Japanese assassins… and even a towering Russian.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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Raiders of the Shaolin Temple
Overview: The plot centers on Little Lu (Sonny Yu) who tends horses for the local Shaolin temple, and wants to learn skills that will help him defeat some corrupt officials who want to destroy it. He has a couple of friends (one with no arms, the other with no legs) who help him train using some bronze mechanical horses in a secret room in the temple.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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Fists of Bruce Lee
Overview: Bruce Lee (Bruce Li) is assigned to go undercover as Lee Min-Chin to investigate a drug ring. The mob hires an assassin to kill him. They are both great at what they do; as they fight to the death only one will come out alive.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-04-17
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The Phantom Lute
Overview: Chia Ling aka Judy Lee (SHAOLIN INVINCIBLES, QUEEN BOXER) stars as a woman summoned by a retired general to sing and play the lute for him, but as she performs, he attempts to assault her and in the process murders her. The general and his assistant throw her body and lute into a fire, but Master Ku, a scholar who was watching her father, finds the burnt shell of the lute which now contains her ghost. Together they will now try and bring the general and his henchmen to justice.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Ninja in the Dragon's Den
Overview: A Japanese master of ninjutsu and a Chinese expert in kung fu, put their differences aside after their master is killed by a mortal enemy.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: cn
Release Date: 1982-06-23
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Duel with the Devils
Overview: As the daughter of the Chinese police chief, Angela secretly dresses up as a man to use her kung fu on Japanese troublemakers.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-09-10
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Monkey War
Overview: In the Chinese martial arts/fantasy opus Monkey War: New Pilgrims to the West - a sequel to the original Monkey War - the brave Monkey King launches out on a quest to build a new life for himself. But as he marches westward, he encounters a series of nearly insurmountable foes (including a pig demon and a horde of angry demonic spirits who attempt to eat his monastic tutor) and trials that he must overcome to reach a state of tranquility. (Rotten Tomatoes)
Genres: Action Fantasy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-08-14
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The Chinese Stuntman
Overview: The Chinese Stuntman was a Bruceploitation film released in 1981. Bruce Li (who also directs) plays an insurance salesman who ends up working as a stuntman on a Hong Kong movie.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-07-15
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Laugh In
Overview: A female extra-terrestrial (Chen Chen) appears on earth - in Hong Kong - to warn humankind of an impending catastrophe, but is arrested and institutionalised. She becomes trapped in a media circus, paraded as a freak. Exhausted and exasperated, the girl vanishes; a UFO is seen disappearing into the night sky.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Shantung Man in Hong Kong
Overview: When Shan Tung comes to Hong Kong for the first time, wanting to seek help from his countryman Lo San, however, Lo San refuses to give him a hand. Shan Tung has no choice but to sell amphetamine in the street for living. A honest guy like him with pronunciation problem often causes embarrassing situations. He is laughed at by others because of his queer ideas. In later days, he makes a lot of friends because he never hesitate to do what is righteous. Therefore he has a better life than before.....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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The Prominent Eunuch Chen Ho
Overview: Cheng Ho was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty. This film depicts some of the adventures and battles he had when he explored the southern Asian regions.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Tornado of Chu-chiang
Overview: In the early days of the Chinese Republic era, dockworkers in Macau are being mistreated by their Chinese overseers. An accident reveals that the cargo is composed of guns and opium.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Secrets of the Inner Chamber
Overview: The story is about a licentious emperor during the Tang Dynasty.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Hapkido
Overview: Yu Ying, Kao and Fan return to China to start a martial arts school but are bullied by the Japanese competitor who runs the Black Bear school. The harassment leads to intense conflicts between them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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The Fate of Lee Khan
Overview: Lee Khan, a high official under Mongolian Emperor Yuan of the Yuan dynasty procures the battle map of the Chinese rebel Chu Yuan-Chang's army. Rebel spies, aided by treachery within Khan's ranks, strive to corner him in an inn.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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The Last Night of Madam Chin
Overview: Set in Shanghai in the 1940s. Story of a ballroom girl Jolie Chan who falls in love with a student and becomes pregnant, but the student's family force her to have an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1984-11-08
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The Flute Player of Wrath
Overview: Taiwanese Kung Fu actor Yip Fei, (Snuff Bottle Connection) stars in this superb swordplay film from Taiwan. A swordsman known for his flute playing style: dispatches his foes in the bloodiest of ways.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Overview: Excellent martial arts film depicts the exploits of the legendary Chinese scholar, Sun Tzu, the author of the world renowned book, "The Art of War by Sun Tzu" This film adaptation is filled with great fight scenes and battle stratagems.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1979-06-28
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The Trail of the Broken Blade
Overview: Chivalrous swordsman Jun-zhao goes in search of a fugitive named Li Yueh in order to reunite him with his love, Liu Xian. Though the two men meet and become loyal brothers, Li does not reveal his true identity until Jun-zhao's life is endangered by swordsmen from Flying Fish Island who are looking for revenge.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1967-03-04
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Fist of Unicorn
Overview: Unicorn travels to a village troubled by gangsters in search of revenge for the murder of his parents years before. The task is made more complicated when he befriends a middle-aged woman and her son who begin to admire and depend on him.
Genres: Action
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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